[Vwoolf] Another textual question about Mrs Dalloway

[Edward Mendelson]

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Stephen Barkway has generously answered my earlier question about the 
text of Mrs. Dalloway, and now I hope the expert members of the list can 
answer another.

Stella McNichols seems to have been the only editor who noticed that the 
first-edition text of Mrs Dalloway, in the paragraph that begins "Love 
and religion! thought Clarissa," has two different spellings for a 
repeated word in the second sentence of the paragraph:

"How destestable, how detestable they are!" (d-e-s-etc. in the first word).

The question is: when (if ever) did that first "s" in the first use of 
the word disappear from the Hogarth text? I'm away from my books until 
September, but I think I remember that an early-1940s reprint of the 
Uniform Edition still had the extra "s" - but this could be imagination 
at its inventive work.

Any illumination (it need not be a match burning in a crocus) will be 
gratefully received.